Color Blindness
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Web Pages
Vischeck
See the world as color blind people see it. Also simulates the effects of distance and different monitor types.
Umist Eye System
Extensive colour vision test from the UK.
Ask A Biologist
Color tests for eyes with or without the condition.
HealthLink MCW
An article about the severity of this ailment.
Appearance: Colorblindness
How things look to someone who is colorblind. Overview of tests and genetics.
Creamer Color Chart
Screening test for the early detection of red-green colorblindness in children.
Ishihara Test for Color Blindness
Tests for color blindness.
Colour Vision Testing
Leading UK colour vision consultant offers tests for education, careers, employment and safety-related professions.
Colorblindness information page
Includes an Ishihara plate, information from those disabled and their relatives, and links to media articles. Names of colors appear in the color.
Color Blindness
Professional information on color blindness, related conditions and tests. Concludes that "No treatment is available for any form of inherited color vision deficiency."
Colorblindness prosthesis, per CNN
Describes optometrist and lenses he invented to "improve his red-green colorblindness"
FDA talk paper
U.S. Department position on 'colormax' lenses to ameliorate red-green color deficiency.
Colorblindness and . . .Types
Explains mechanics and physiology, and includes color wheels to simulate what the disabled see.
No Laughing Matter
Page at humor site has some facts, shock language, and deceptive links.
Color Blindness: Treatment
Paragraph may trigger pop-ups. Links to test plate or poster sales, and information on the X-Chrom lens.
The X-Chrom lens: a case study
Paragraph from Australian Optometrists Association describing patient fitted with a color contact.
Ophthalmology Times: ColorMax gets patents for X-Chrom
Trade paper announcement of new colored contact lens patent owner.
Information & Products
Addresses and links for makers and sellers of products to accomodate color vision problems.
Chromagen Tinted Soft Contact Lens
"FDA cleared" product to help the color blind and dyslexic. FAQs, testiomonials, vision centers (one in the USA).
When Is a Disabled Employee Qualified?
Shannon v. NY Transit Auth., was a bus driver whose employer found he was color-blind. Considers disability under the (US) Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
CVRL Color & Vision database
an annotated library of downloads for color and vision research. Color Vision Research Laboratory information is primarily scientific and technical.
International Colour Vision Society
physiologists, psychologists, physicists, geneticists, optometrists, ophthalmologists and others who have a research interest in colour vision or deficiency
Job-Hunting for the So-Called Handicapped or People Who Have Disabilities
Page to sell paperback by Richard Nelson Bolles (author of the extremely popular job-hunting book, What Color is Your Parachute?)
Red-green color blindness in humans
Tutorial from sex-linked inheritance problem set provides college-level explaination. Includes graphics
Colorblind
Information on color blindness. Links include tests to determine color deficiency.
Medical College develops genetic test for colorblindness
Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Journal Sentinel story of test licensed to ColorMax. "A major breakthrough."
Applied Biosystems - BioBeat - ABI PRISMŽ 310 Genetic Analyzer Makes Colorblindness Easier to See
Promotes machine in analysis of colorblindness. "At present, there is not a diagnostic test to distinguish between hereditary colorblindness and acquired color vision deficiencies."
Firelily Designs - Color Vision, Color Deficiency
Pictures to approximate what the afflicted see. Article about color problems, causes, and compensation with web design or browser settings.
Probers fear co-pilot in FedEx crash is colorblind
Associated Press story says officials are investigating color-deficient co-pilot in plane crash.
Pseudoisochromatic Plates Comparison Chart
Chart compares color vision tests. Links to related information.
Drugs affecting color vision
Chart lists drugs affecting color vision. Ibuprofen (Advil) makes it worse.
Richmond Products
Page with links to products to test or mitigate color defects. FAQs & chart of drugs.
List of genetic disorders - Wikipedia
Entry lists colorblindness as a point mutation in the X chromosome. Links to details.
Color blindness - Wikipedia
"Free Encyclopedia" entry. Includes (web) design implications.
Color blindness
Information from Cataract & Laser Institute. Signs & Symptoms, Detection & Diagnosis, Treatment.
Disability Advice Centre fact sheet - colour blindness
4-page Royal Mail (UK) pdf about the disability. Includes useful URLs.
EyeDropper
free program works with Windows to let you know the color of any part a PC screen. Allows removing background images and the adjustment of text to black & white.
Colorblindness explained, with new online tests
Includes chart, tables, and pictures.
Color Blindness: More Prevalent Among Males
Short article tells how disease evolved.
What's Color Blindness?
Though many think that color-blind means one does not see any color, this isn't true. Q & A for kids.
Medical Genetics - X-linked Recessive: Red-Green Color Blindness, Hemophilia A
Inheritance of the condition, and similar mechanism in hemophilia.
Color Vision
Presentation about normal vision. Includes spectra, eye anatomy and color response curves.